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Cowardice - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Alarm, Anemia, Cachexia, Dread, Fatigue, Fear

Cowardice is a vice. Conventionally it is the corruption of prudence. Cowardice may be considered to be prudence that does not take consequences to their furthest extent.

Cowardice is not fear, but rather a submission to vice that uses fear as a pretext. Here's an example of virtuous fear: We all fear to dive head-first into a swimming pool the depth of which we do not know. An example of cowardice would be to refuse to testify against a crime lord, merely because one might risk death.

A concomitant of cowardice is effeminacy.

See also: virtue,

Example Usage of Cowardice

zwitscherhorst: To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy Cowardice of surrender to conformity.
randompassword: guzi>H8o #password - The surest protection against temptation is Cowardice. -- Mark Twain
akargosrani: Shiv Sena is such a coward! They proved their stupidity and Cowardice yesterday..If you beat up the media..the media will bite you back!
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